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19 People say, “God stores up a man’s punishment for his children,”
but he should repay the man himself so that he experiences it!
20 Let his own eyes see his condemnation.[a]
Let him drink from the rage of the Almighty,
21 for what does he care about his household after his death,
when his allotment of months has run out?

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Footnotes

  1. Job 21:20 Or destruction

19 ‘God stores up his iniquity for his children’?[a]
Then let him repay it to him that[b] he may know.
20 Let his eyes see his decay,
and let him drink from the wrath of Shaddai,
21 for what does he care for[c] his house after him,
when the number of his months is[d] cut off?

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Footnotes

  1. Job 21:19 Or “You say, ‘God stores up his iniquity for his children.’”
  2. Job 21:19 Hebrew “and”
  3. Job 21:21 Literally “his joy in”
  4. Job 21:21 Hebrew “are”